Old Summer Palace

There are many hotels around Old Summer Palace. Beijing Friendship Hotel is one of them.

Beijing Friendship Hotel, a 4 star hotel, is located in China’s “Silicon Village” in Haidian District. It is close to Old Summer Palace, Yuanmingyuan, the Fragrant Hill, the Beijing University, the Tsinghua University and some famous universities. You can reach the Old Summer Palace by bus or taxi. Beijing Friendship Hotel is the biggest garden-style hotel in Asia. Beijing Friendship Hotel was wrote into<<World Constructions History>> from Cambridge University with its huge scale and full-bodied national characters.

Beijing Friendship Hotel owns 1200 guestrooms including standard room and business suite. All are equipped with complete facilities. Beijing Friendship Hotel also offers a variety of dining settings and cuisine options, the on-site restaurants and banquet halls can seats 2000 guests in total. It is a good choice after travel in Old Summer Palace. There are many business facilities in Beijing Friendship Hotel including translation service, conference facilities and stages for performance. Multi-functional halls and conference rooms of a variety sizes in Beijing Friendship Hotel are furnished with high tech facilities. In order to care your leisure and recreation, Beijing Friendship Hotel sets an indoor swimming pool and a balcony for enjoying the sunshine bath. Relaxing yourself and sharing the feelings of Old Summer Palace with your friends, Beijing Friendship Hotel is an ideal choice

Beijing Friendship Hotel and Old Summer Palace always welcome you.

The Yuanmingyuan is located in the west suburbs of Haidian in Beijing, which is adjoin the Summer Palace. The Yuanmingyuan started built at 46^th of Kangxi(1707),including Yuanmingyuan, Changchunyuan, Qichunyuan. The Yuanmingyuan has 350 hectares, covers area of water is about 140 hectares. There are hundreds of gardens, and constructed area more than 160 thousand square meters in Yuanmingyuan. It is a large imperial palatial garden which set up and managed by emperors of Qing Dynasty in 150 years. Yuanmingyuan inherited excellent architecture tradition of more than 3000 years in China, which has the elegant and graceful of court construction and tactful appearance of gardens in jiangnan. At the same time, Yuanmingyuan absorbed the construction style in Europe and melt different style to itself, what it created make people feel perfect and harmony totally. Yuanmingyuan not only famous for its courts, but also is a imperial museum with abundant collection. French writer Hugo has said” Even if the our country all the treasures of Notre Dame all together, also not be with the grand scale and the splendid Oriental museum rival”. There are many narra furniture is decorated in palaces and foreign rare cultural relics were exhibited in it. Wenyuange is one of the four biggest imperial libliothecas. There are many valuable books cultural relic such as <<The Si Ku Quan Shu>>,<< The Compendium of Works of Past and Present>>,<< The Siku Quanshu Huiyao>> and so on in Yuanmingyuan.

Many customers are attracted by the elegant environment of the Hanlai Restaurant. The 1600 square meters restaurant can contain more than 300 guests one time. No matter the group dine together, family entertain or wedding banquets, Hanlai is a good choice. Many tourists in Old summer Palace choose this restaurant for its beautiful, simple and elegant repast environment. The restaurant has the international standard open style kitchen. There are more than 300 seats. The transparent French window makes the sunshine perpendicular incidence. You can enjoy the romantic piano play when taste the various countries delicious food. As the first boutique cafeteria, the Hanlai International Catering Collection Restaurant will let you have a wonderful delicious food travelling.

The founder of the restaurant was attracted by the Taiwan Hailai Hotel expert buffet. He wanted to introduce the new catering concept to inland. Under the support of the Hanlai Hotel, he opened the first restaurant in Beijing in July 2006. So it is also a good chance for tourists in Old Summer Palace to taste the delicious Hanlai food.

Old Summer Palace is in Qinghua Road Haidian District. It is not far for tourists in Old Summer Palace trip have meal in Hanlai. Tourists in Old Summer Palace tour also can go shopping in Zhongguancun Square Shopping Center since the restaurant is just in the center. Tourists in Old Summer Palace will have a good day.

In history Old Summer Palace was consisted of three gardens. The three gardens link together and were called by a joint name Old Summer Palace. The Old Summer Palace covers more than 5200 mu and is near thousand mu larger than Palace.

The emperor built a European style garden architecture called Xiyanglou. It is consisted of more than ten architectures and yards. It was planned from 1747 and finished in 1759. The Xiyanglou in Old Summer Palace was designed by western missionaries Lang Shining, Jiang Youren, Wang Zhicheng and so on. Chinese craftmen built it. The architecture style is Baroque style in later European Renaissance period. The landscape architecture style is Lenuote style. The landscape and architecture decorations absorb many Chinese traditional styles. The architecture materials are mainly white marbles. The stones are carefully carved. The roof is color glazed tile. The main building of Xiyanglou is the manmade spring also called Shuifa. The character is large number, great momentum and special conception.

Xiyanglou is less than the one fifth part of the three gardens in Old Summer Palace. It is only a small part. It is a successful try to imitate the European landscapes. It has important position in the history of the eastern and western landscapes communication in Old Summer Palace.

Yuyuantan Park is one of the eleven parks in Beijing. It is located in Haidian District and has very convenient transportation. Tourists in Old Summer Palace always have a visit here. The Old Summer Palace is not far away from the Yuyuantan Park.

In Jin dynasty, this area is a sightseeing holy land. There is river side scenery in Liao and Jin dynasty. There is the famous Yangzun Forest and Spring, Go fishing River and many other resorts. Because this area is low-lying so the water in Xishan area converges here. In 1773 Qianlong period in Qing dynasty, there formed a lake and built brake. The water reached to city moat from Sanli River. There built rest palace of the east area. The back lake is chocked with silt and overgrown with weeds. After the liberation, to coordinate the project of diversion works in Yongding River, there dug a new lake which is 10 hectares old lake. The lake likes a calabash so it also named Bayi Lake. There is an experiment hydropower station in the downstream. The old and new lakes associate in east and west. They can water diversion and store water. In 1960 the Miyun reservoir was built. The water flows pass the Kunming Lake to Yuyuantan and go into the city river. In 1960 the park was named Yuyuantan Park. After the many years’ construction, the park has become a city grade park. Tourists in Yuyuantan Park can find the difference between the park and the Old Summer Palace even though the Old Summer Palace also has a long history. The Old Summer Palace has many historic relics. But the Yuyuantan Park is most natural scenery. The Old Summer Palace also has natural scenery.

The Old Summer Palace is located in Beijing west rural area Haidian District. The Old Summer Palace is close to the Summer Palace. It was built in 1706 in Qing dynasty, but now it has been damaged. The water theme buildings in the Old Summer Palace are attractive.

Old Summer Palace garden landscapes are more water theme. The buildings are fun because of the water. There are many spots absorb the jiangnan style. The back lake scenery part in Old Summer Palace has nine islands and they symbolize the nine states. The gardens or scenery built in each island has their own character and they enhance to each other. The Shangxiatianguang in north bank has the feeling of climbing the Yueyang Pavilion and looking over the Dongting Lake. The in west the place is spacious. The Wanfanganhe Pavilion is built in the lake. It is warm in winter and cool in summer. You can see the various and rare flowers on the other side. Yongzheng emperor likes to live here. The Shuimumingse in north of the Old Summer Palace pilots the water into the house. The Qianlong emperor likes to remove the heat in summer. The Haiyuekaijin in West Lake Changchun Garden built three-level palace on the white stone round platform. If you look over of it, it looks like the mirage.

Beijing has a plenty of attractive scenic spots which attract a great number of tourists every day from all over the world. Old Summer Palace is one of the most popular tourism resources especially for foreign people. The Old Summer Palace was built in Qing Kang Xi dynasty in 1709 and covers an area of about 160,000 square meters. If you are interested in ancient Chinese culture and want to visit some historical sites, Old Summer Palace is the ideal place for you.

Besides Old Summer Palace, there are also many other places worth visiting in Haidian District. Located in No.33 of South Zhongguancun Street, next to Purple Bamboo Park, the National Library of China was established in 1987 which covers an area of 7.24 hectares with the construction area of 140,000 square meters. Stack room has 22 floors which covers 60000 square meters. And the design ability of National Library of China is 20 million books. The National Library of China is the largest library in Asia. And the collections in the library could date back to 700 years ago.

Visiting Old Summer Palace, you will be interested in the architecture style of Qing Dynasty. After visiting National Library of China, you could get the information even 700 hundred years ago. Tourists will enjoy the time both in Old Summer Palace and National Library of China.

Beijing tour is very popular because of there are many attractive places and historical sites in Beijing. Old Summer Palace is one of the most popular scenic spots in Beijing with the long history. Every day a large number of tourists come to Old Summer Palace to enjoy the wonderful architecture from Qing Dynasty. Located in Haidian district, Old Summer Palace is surrounded by many other interesting places.

The Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution was built in 1959 as one of ten gifts for 10th anniversary of National Day. It is the only large comprehensive military history museum of China located in Haidian district and not far from Old Summer Palace. The Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution covers more than 80,000 square meters with the construction area of over 60,000 square meters. The main exhibition halls in it are the agrarian revolutionary war hall, the national liberation war hall, ancient war hall, modern war hall, weapons hall and gift hall. There are totally 22 exhibition halls and 2 display squares which show the development of China.

After visiting Old Summer Palace and The Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution, you will get a deeper understanding about ancient Chinese culture and the development of modern China.

Old Summer Palace is located in Beijing Haidian district and is an old royal garden. The position of the Old Summer Palace is very close to the famous Summer Palace. The Old Summer Palace was built in Qing Kang Xi dynasty in 1709 and covers an area of about 160,000 square meters. The Old Summer Palace was a great royal palace in Qing dynasty with the top class constructions and excellent scenery. The Old Summer Palace was the most beautiful royal palace during the Qing dynasty and was redecorated many times during a long period of 150 years. The Old Summer Palace was consisted of three parts and there were Yuanmingyuan, Changchunyuan, Yichunyuan. There were about more than 150 viewpoints inside of the Old Summer Palace. However, Old Summer Palace is a ruin site in Beijing today after the 1860 war.

Today the Old Summer Palace in Beijing is a history site and opens to public in order to make people in China remember the hard history of China and the existing of the Old Summer Palace site in Beijing shows the history of 1860 war in Beijing city. In ancient time, there are thousands and millions Chinese treasures which all mostly from Forbidden City were stored inside of the beautiful Old Summer Palace during the Qing dynasty from Kang Xi Emperor. However, a lot of treasures lost after the 1860 war in Beijing. Beijing Old Summer Palace is a good place to learn the hard history for Chinese people

Located in Old Summer Palace at Tsinghai north road, Haidian district, the Yuanmingyuan Exhibition Hall was built in 1979. The Old Summer Palace consists of three parts: Yuanmingyuan, Wanchunyuan (the garden of Blossoming Spring) and Changchunyuan (the Garden of Eternal Spring).  As we all know, the ruins of Yuanmingyuan are well protected and a park has been established on the ruin site. The museum has a large scale of precious cultural relics, photos and video on the copy of the original, “yuanMing three parks” miniature model, introduces the landscape reproduced yuanmingyuan which is a generation of gardens of the prosperous history.

Exhibition hall has two exhibition halls, the first exhibition hall and the second mostly display construction, the splendor of the palace as the main content, the second part of the exhibition hall for the relevant information about how yuanmingyuan to ruin and the recovery of yuanmingyuan. Exhibits has 150 pieces in all, the exhibition mainly display the drawings, photographs, model and real as subsidiary, every exhibit with brief text.

Exhibition hall, interpretation and guide in the video hall continuous play video of the destruction of the Chinese first garden. There sales the literature, video material of yuanmingyuan as tourist souvenirs The second the exhibition hall.

Address: Beijing’s haidian district qinghua north road yuanmingyuan park.

Busline: 4, 6 no. 22, 104,the express line, express 205, 105 American express 301, 303, 330, 331, 332, 333, 346, 355-365, 362, 375,and the line of 384, 394, 716, 717, 718, 801, 808, 810, 814, 951 buses.

Open time: 7:00-17:30pm.